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Page vi
Her early conditionher connexion with ancient Buddhism - her architectural
remains — her famous temples , holy wells and tanks , and numerous ghats or
stairs leading down to the Gangesthe legends concerning them — the peculiar
customs ...
Her early conditionher connexion with ancient Buddhism - her architectural
remains — her famous temples , holy wells and tanks , and numerous ghats or
stairs leading down to the Gangesthe legends concerning them — the peculiar
customs ...
Page xi
Karmghaņța Táláo or Tank . — Temple of the Demon Bhút - Bhairo.Temple of
Bará Gaņeś . - Jagannath . — Satís 116 CHAPTER IX . The Piśách - Mochan
Tank . - Legend of the Goblin Piśách.The Festival of Lotá - Bhaņța , or the Egg -
plant ...
Karmghaņța Táláo or Tank . — Temple of the Demon Bhút - Bhairo.Temple of
Bará Gaņeś . - Jagannath . — Satís 116 CHAPTER IX . The Piśách - Mochan
Tank . - Legend of the Goblin Piśách.The Festival of Lotá - Bhaņța , or the Egg -
plant ...
Page xii
Raja Cheit Singh's Tank . – Virtue of Pilgrimage to the Rámnagar side of Benares
.- Temple of Vedavyás . - Panch - kosí Road , or Sacred Boundary of Benares . —
Pilgrimage of the Panch - kosí . -Sanitary condition of Benares .-- Improvements ...
Raja Cheit Singh's Tank . – Virtue of Pilgrimage to the Rámnagar side of Benares
.- Temple of Vedavyás . - Panch - kosí Road , or Sacred Boundary of Benares . —
Pilgrimage of the Panch - kosí . -Sanitary condition of Benares .-- Improvements ...
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Shiva gave him instructions how to behave himself , and left him to his own
meditations ; whereupon , as a first exploit , with his chakra or discus he dug the
tank denominated , from its origin , the Chakr - pushkarni . He then engaged in
the ...
Shiva gave him instructions how to behave himself , and left him to his own
meditations ; whereupon , as a first exploit , with his chakra or discus he dug the
tank denominated , from its origin , the Chakr - pushkarni . He then engaged in
the ...
Page 114
The temple of Kámanánáth is connected with a depressed plain close by , which
was formerly an extensive jhil or pond , and was then called the Machaudarí Tírth
, or place of pilgrimage , which , like other tanks 114 BENARES , PAST AND ...
The temple of Kámanánáth is connected with a depressed plain close by , which
was formerly an extensive jhil or pond , and was then called the Machaudarí Tírth
, or place of pilgrimage , which , like other tanks 114 BENARES , PAST AND ...
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| Title | The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times |
| Author | Matthew Atmore Sherring |
| Contributor | Fitzedward Hall |
| Publisher | Trübner & Company, 1868 |
| Original from | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2012 |
| Length | 388 pages |
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